Body of motor road-vehicles



W. 1. ROGERS.

BODY OF MOTOR ROAD VEHICLES.

APPLICATION man JULY 2, 1919.

1,353,787. PatentedSept. 21,1920

WILLIAM IVEY noenns; or BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

BODY OF Moron. ROAD-VEHICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 2, 1919. Serial No. 308,122.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM IvEY ROGERS,

a subject of the Kin dom of Great Britain,

residing at 2 Park I ill, Moseley, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, England, engineer, have invented certain new and usetachment for a motor road vehicle or body thereof, having fore and rear seats, said at tachment comprising a cover or section adapted to convert the rear seat of the car into a boot or rear extension.

The present invention further comprehends an attachment for a motor road vehicle or body thereof, comprising a substantially rigid cover or cover section adapted to be applied to cover the rear seat without necessitating the displacement of the latter, and in which the said cover or cover section is entirely separable from the vehicle or body.

In order that this invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into practice, reference may be had to the appended explanatory sheet of drawings, upon which:

Figure 1 illustrates in side elevation an automobile with my invention applied thereto; the broken lines indicate the part of the car concealed by the device of the present invention.

Fig. 2 illustrates separately the device ace cording to the present invention, whichis shown applied to the car illustrated in Fig. 1.

In a convenient embodiment of the present invention, I provide a coup'top a, furnished with provision for accommodating a sliding window adapted to be raised, but which coup top has a rigid rearward extension 1) so that when the coup top is as:

sembled upon the car body, the rear extension covers the rear seats of the car. This Patented Sept. 21, 1920. I

extension is adapted to eiiectively fit. the rear part of the car body and to substantially conceal the juncture of the cover with the body.

The means for detachably connecting the extension or rear cover to the car body may be of any approved form, and are con-' veniently of a concealed or substantially concealed character.

What I claim as my invention and desire In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM IVEY ROGERS. 

